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Reviews 

AN EYE FOR AN EYE – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

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How much is a life worth? The provocative documentary An Eye for An Eye raises that question, following one woman in Iran whose in-laws decide whether she deserves execution for killing her husband or their forgiveness for a price. As the film opens, Tahereh has already served fourteen years in prison for strangling her husband, Hossein, but her future is in limbo. Under Iranian law, her in-laws—specifically, her brother-in-law, as head of Hossein’s family—must determine an amount of “blood money” they’ll accept as restitution, or whether she’s even allowed to live.

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News 

WEEK IN WOMEN: Women artists create awards for Tribeca Film Fest 2023 – Brandy McDonnell reports

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New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel have announced the artists selected as part of the 2023 Artist Awards Program. As in previous years, Tribeca and Chanel bring together esteemed artists to generously donate an original work, which will be awarded to winning filmmakers at the festival, which this year runs June 7-18. This year, an all-women cohort of 10 acclaimed artists have been invited by Tribeca and Chanel to celebrate their fellow storytellers by creating the awards presented to the filmmakers.

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Festivals 

TRIBECA FILM FEST 2023: Women and Horror – Preview by Alexandra Heller Nicholas

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If you are looking for tangible evidence that film festivals are taking equity seriously, the stats surrounding the forthcoming 2023 Tribeca Festival are a good place to start. With 68% of films in competition directed by women and 36% of all features directed by BIPOC filmmakers, when these numbers are weighed up next to the high calibre names it’s frankly hard not to be impressed.

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Festivals Interviews 

MICKEY SUMNER on WITH/in, iPhone filmmaking and Trudie Styler – Jennifer Merin interviews

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Mickey Sumner’s I’m Listening was shot in response to Maven Screen Media’s WITH/IN short film initiative for Tribeca Film Festival 2021. The directive was simple: Using an iPhone and whatever’s easily at your disposal, shoot a short film dealing with quarantine life in 2020. It’s not as if there wasn’t a surplus of storytelling angles, themes and emotions available, considering how much everyone’s lives changed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Reviews 

JACINTA (TFF2020) – Review by Lois Alter Mark

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Like mother, like daughter takes on a whole new significance in Jessica Earnshaw’s extraordinary documentary, Jacinta, a devastating movie about the cycle of addiction and dependency. The film presents a powerful portrait of inherited trauma that’s, ultimately, also a story of love and hope.

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Festivals Reviews 

BAD RAP — Tribeca Film Festival Review by Candice Frederick

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The film’s title says it all: BAD RAP. Sure, it’s a play on words, but it also highlights a type of music that has long been considered the source of racial, political and social aggravation. Which makes it ripe for exploration in the documentary that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2016. But filmmaker Salima Koroma doesn’t focus on the negative sociopolitical issues persistently discussed in the media (misogyny, cultural appropriation, sexism, etc). Rather, she opens up the conversation to the far less discussed marginalization of Asian-American rappers in an industry dominated by African-American men

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